Canon City News

General Government Committee to discuss proposal for allowing retail sale of marijuana during Wednesday's meeting

By Carie Canterbury

canterburyc@canoncitydailyrecord.com

Posted:
04/08/2014 04:32:30 PM MDT

The Cañon City General Government committee will hold a work session at 4 p.m. Wednesday to discuss a proposal for allowing under certain circumstances, the retail sale of marijuana in Cañon City.

The meeting is at Council Chambers in City Hall, 128 Main St., and is open to the public.

The meeting agenda includes consideration of:

— Prohibiting retail and medical sales in the Central Business District zone district, or downtown area.

— Allowing such facilities only in the General Commercial and Industrial zone districts, the same zones where medical marijuana facilities currently are permitted, and marijuana cultivation facilities might be permitted in the Rural Living zone district only following special review approval.

— Not restricting distance restrictions between retail and medical marijuana establishments, but there should be distance restrictions between such establishments and schools and child day care facilities.

— Hours of operation. The committee previously agreed the hours of operation should be limited to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week.

— Establishing a local licensing process, with appropriate fees, but the local licensing process should be designed to leave much of the processing work to the state.

City Administrator Doug Dotson's report Monday night to city council stated that if directed by council, staff will have an ordinance for consideration by the city council on first reading at the April 21 regular council meeting.

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